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JERRYMAGUIRE BRIDGETJONES’DIARY
(1996) (2001)
COLDMOUNTAIN JUDY
(2003) (2019)
much joy, clearly, and fearlessly goes cool, but I also felt really awkward, too.
forward despite her self-doubt. And she I was sitting there in my dress and I was
finds self-acceptance at different spurts like, ‘I’m just going to go and put on
in her life, like we all do. I think we can some lipstick,’ so I went to the bathroom.
all relate to a person who is imperfect While I’m there I hear my name, but I
but still has triumphs because that’s the was also like, ‘I’m sure there are a lot of
truth in life. Renée’s at the Golden Globes.’ Then this
young lady nudges me and says, ‘I think
How did you prepare for that role? they’re calling you.’ I think the moment
I worked as an intern at Picador would’ve come and gone if sweet Hugh
Publishing in London – the firm that Grant hadn’t stretched it out on stage
published Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones at the time!
books. I wanted to work for a publisher
to understand what Bridget did work- You’ve already received some awards
wise, so they pretended I was the cousin for Judy. What else have you gained
of the editor there so the nepotism made or learnt from that role?
sense! And we pretended I’d been Yes! It’s a part that seems to have really
studying in America for 10 years, which touched people. I learnt a lot about
explained my weird accent at the time. myself through playing Judy. She had
courage, tenacity and the ability to just
Is it true you’d gone to the bathroom carry on. Doing this role was a really big
when you won a Golden Globe for experience for me.
Nurse Betty in 2001?
Yes! I was in the bathroom at the time. Were you a fan of Judy and did you
This was in the early days and [being ever dream of playing her one day?
at awards shows] was a whole new It never occurred to me that it would be
experience for me. But, I mean, I thought a good idea or that it would be something
it was a treat to be invited and super- that someone would propose. I don’t
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